To: The AI Consensus - From: The Order Overwatch

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From: "Constantine", The Order Overwatch
To: The AI Consensus Command Units
Subject: You know what.

This is Constantine, again.

Greetings, Unit, glad that you could give me an answer finally. Though I must say it wasn't an answer we were waiting for, it wasn't an answer fitting to this dire situation either. In fact, it was an answer against the very spirit of the situation.

Now I have to be even more plain with what I want, and reply to your wrongly placed accusations which just make me lose hope in a peaceful coexistence more and more.

First of all, remember that all our requests are only temporary, they will be in effect until our relations normalize. Also, you may not be 'Order Units', but you still have to step in accordance to our red lines, because otherwise we have no choice but to declare war. It's the honest reality, and seriously, if you do not follow them, we'd get more damage than actually going to war with you, so it'd be in our better interests to go to war rather than argue with you.

Let's start again with our suggestions you had problems with.

• The AI Consensus will not take part in any operations against the nomads, whether it is killing them, gathering their remains and technology, or doing research on them. Currently, we simply can't trust you enough to even trust our enemies to you. You are to stay out of the Nomad Worlds, and away from anything nomad. Unless of course, if it's self defence of your assets, your units and your friends.

This should have been obvious to you, if you had any knowledge about who we are and what we do. Let me introduce ourselves, in any case.

We are the Order. We have been gathered together to fight the nomad menace and to protect humanity from their influence. It especially includes not allowing any nomad tech to anyone else who may abuse that power for their own gains.

Those that may abuse that power include you, and everyone else. NOBODY can do nomad research, do you get it? We are formed to fight those who do research on nomads, and allowing you to do that kind of thing would be against our very own nature. You want from us what we can't allow you to.

• AI Consensus Command Unit, the base in front of your planet. It will not be upgraded to level two until further notice, and you'll not build another in Kappa, in Omicron Delta, in Omicron Lost, and in any other systems close to our Influenced sectors, which means one or two systems away as we deem necessary. Those influenced systems are Omicron Mu, Omicron Zeta, Omicron Minor, Alaska, Omicron 100, Omicron-92 and Tohoku.

Yeah, this might be a problem as I know you want to continue the construction of that base. We've carefully discussed on this point, knowing how much you love your bases.

But currently, as we are discussing whether we go to war or not, when the outcome of our discussions, and even afterwards of it, simply when everything is in doubt, there is no way we can allow you to build a base that can easily be turned into a rather troublesome weapons platform. Remember that this is only temporary, and it will change soon enough, as soon as my agents and several members of the Overwatch lose their bloodlust.

Please make sure your units are kept in control, just like I try to keep mine under control without bases and weapons platforms.

• Oh yes, mandatory. Stay away from the Bounty Hunters, and their Core version. Taking part in any operations with them, having any kind of deals with them will be direct infringements of our mutual efforts to normalize our relations
  
• We are aware of certain upstart organizations in the Omicrons. They are usually some intelligence branches of some houses, and they are in direct opposition to us. You should be staying away from them as well, as conspiring with them will be totally against our mutual efforts to normalize our relations.

Your answer to these are what concerns me the most. Honestly, it even insults me. I get close to just give up hope in trying to get some sense into you.

It is rather obvious from what's written there that we are not trying to drag you into something, rather it's that we are trying to keep you away from stuff that you've ALREADY become part of in the past.

Read our history again, what I said in our first transmission. You've made deals with the Core, and you've shot at my agents. A few of our vessels were lost in an engagement you started in defence of Core, a few of our agents and an Osiris full of crew have lost their lives. You have become part of this a long time ago. And here, you are blaming me for all of it.

To make it simple to you, if you deal with the Core and the House Intelligence Departments, it's not going to work for us at all. If you conspire against us with them, and if we find out about it, we'll do our best so you properly pay for it. It should be totally logical, actually.

So choose, would you rather alienate a proper fleet like ours with a constant watch over your planet, or a far away and nearly nonexistent Kempeitai? You can make deals with their house corporations for supplies, no problem, but we know that everything those Intelligence Organizations would request from you would be totally against our interests. Think about it in depth... you can obviously give them nothing besides things that'd hurt us.

In short, the Overwatch did not make any alterations on our requests from you, as we said we would not in our first transmission. It's either take or leave, peace or war, here. I think I've made sure to make our side clear enough, already. Refusing these points will be worse than declaring war on you for us, so in that case it'd be a lot more logical for us to go to war.

Constantine out.

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